Operation Northwoods was a proposed false flag operation which originated within the Department of Defense of the US government in 1962. The proposals called for Central Intelligence Agency operatives
Operation Northwoods memorandum (March 13, 1962)
General Lyman Lemnitzer, who was in charge as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
General Edward Lansdale, commander of the anti-Cuban Operation Mongoose project
In June 1963 President Kennedy gave his memorable speech at American University, offering an olive branch to the Soviet Union in the form of a unilateral Partial Nuclear Test Ban proposal
Operation Mongoose, also known as the Cuban Project, was an extensive campaign of terrorist attacks against civilians, and covert operations, carried out by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in Cub
Operation Northwoods
…the Joint Chiefs of Staff, signed by Chairman Lyman Lemnitzer and sent to the Secretary of Defense. Although part of the US government's anti-communist Cuban Project, Operation Northwoods was never officially accepted; it was approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff but then rejected by President Kennedy. None of the…
Operation Mongoose Memorandum October 4, 1962 First page of a meeting report
Cuban Missile Crisis: Reconnaissance picture showing the missiles
The CIA allegedly recruited Mob bosses Sam Giancana (pictured), Santo Trafficante and other mobsters to assassinate Fidel Castro.